In addition 5th said you need a valid Merkle root... that the one in his code was for illustration.Someone with experience will need to chime in on that one.

Truth be told I dig deep and deep in Bitcoin's source and it does some kind of serialization of objects and stuff and finally produces a merkle root hash..seriously ridiculously hard to even figure out what the hell happens.

I would like to create a coin :O, one that is not GPU dependent. I have been developing a FPS on and off the last year so perhaps I could create a video game and you mine coins in game? I actually also like the idea of creating a coin that some how rewards ethical work. Can anyone point me to a tutorial, preferably noob proof.

I would like to create a coin :O, one that is not GPU dependent. I have been developing a FPS on and off the last year so perhaps I could create a video game and you mine coins in game? I actually also like the idea of creating a coin that some how rewards ethical work. Can anyone point me to a tutorial, preferably noob proof.

There are no tutorials, thats why this thread was created

Currently Mining: Litecoin, Xencoin, and Worldcoin (Just because its fun!, don't yell at me ;_;)

In addition 5th said you need a valid Merkle root... that the one in his code was for illustration.Someone with experience will need to chime in on that one.

Truth be told I dig deep and deep in Bitcoin's source and it does some kind of serialization of objects and stuff and finally produces a merkle root hash..seriously ridiculously hard to even figure out what the hell happens.

In addition 5th said you need a valid Merkle root... that the one in his code was for illustration.Someone with experience will need to chime in on that one.

Truth be told I dig deep and deep in Bitcoin's source and it does some kind of serialization of objects and stuff and finally produces a merkle root hash..seriously ridiculously hard to even figure out what the hell happens.

Your post count is 666 and you mentioned hell on your 666 post. :|

OMG! I was just thinking this

Currently Mining: Litecoin, Xencoin, and Worldcoin (Just because its fun!, don't yell at me ;_;)

Merkle rootEvery transaction has a hash associated with it. In a block, all of the transaction hashes in the block are themselves hashed (sometimes several times -- the exact process is complex), and the result is the Merkle root. In other words, the Merkle root is the hash of all the hashes of all the transactions in the block. The Merkle root is included in the block header. With this scheme, it is possible to securely verify that a transaction has been accepted by the network (and get the number of confirmations) by downloading just the tiny block headers and Merkle tree -- downloading the entire block chain is unnecessary. This feature is currently not used in Bitcoin, but it will be in the future.

In addition 5th said you need a valid Merkle root... that the one in his code was for illustration.Someone with experience will need to chime in on that one.

Truth be told I dig deep and deep in Bitcoin's source and it does some kind of serialization of objects and stuff and finally produces a merkle root hash..seriously ridiculously hard to even figure out what the hell happens.